Growing up in the SF bay area, earthquakes were not uncommon, but there was an especially big one in 1989. A few years after the quake of my friends confessed that she caused it: she had been playing with an abandoned cash register in a store, and her mom told her to stop and that if she didn't, really bad things would happen. She pushed a red button on the register one last time, and just after she pushed it, the earthquake began. for years she believes that she had caused the earthquake.
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- I used to think the lady behind the cash register at the A & P got to keep all the money in the drawer.Anon
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - I used to believe that if you didn't eat your crust on the bread, there would be an earthquake.Anon
- i used to believe that when you pushed your belly button a baby would pop out im now 14 and know the truth — kelsey
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy
- I used to belive that if you pushed the lighter button in a car it would tranforme it into a batmobile Anon